USING ONLINE ECONOMIC ARTICLES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH FINANCE AND BANKING COLLOCATIONS
USING ONLINE ECONOMIC ARTICLES FOR TEACHING ENGLISH FINANCE AND BANKING COLLOCATIONS

Summary/Abstract: The present paper focuses on the importance of collocation knowledge for ESP learners and tackles upon some methods and tools that facilitate the acquisition of such knowledge. A special attention has been paid to online economic articles that we consider both an actual and effective e-tool in terms of acquiring collocation knowledge. The theoretical part of our paper is completed by an applied section containing different types of activities meant to raise and challenge ESP learners’ awareness of collocations in Finance and Banking English by means of English online business articles. Actually this article pleads for resorting to such authentic materials on a regular basis during seminars as it points out several advantages of their use for ESP students and teachers alike.

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